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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene
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• Animated Factorization (2012)
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• For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
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• Gemini Diffusion
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• The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
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• Planetfall
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• That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years
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• Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
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• Claude 4
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• Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Building my own solar power system
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• The emoji problem (2022)
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• Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
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• Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
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• Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
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• Litestream: Revamped
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• Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
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• Devstral
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• By default, Signal doesn't recall
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• OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
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• Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
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• Claude Code SDK
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• Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent
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• Have I Been Pwned 2.0
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• DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
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• Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
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• Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
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• Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
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• Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
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• What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
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• Ditching Obsidian and building my own
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• $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)
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• France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
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• Don't guess my language
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• Zod 4
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• European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
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• The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
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• GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
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• O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
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• Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
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• If nothing is curated, how do we find things
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• How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
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• Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
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• Mystical
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• AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
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• Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
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• Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?
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• Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
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• Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
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• The first year of free-threaded Python
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• MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
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• Thoughts on thinking
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• Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon
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• Getting AI to write good SQL
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• JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
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• Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Material 3 Expressive
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• A Tiny Boltzmann Machine
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• Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
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• A leap year check in three instructions
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• NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
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• Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
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• BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
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• Ground control to Major Trial
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• A Research Preview of Codex
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
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• Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
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• Internet Artifacts
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• Databricks acquires Neon
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• A server that wasn't meant to exist
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• LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
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• Human
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• Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
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• I don't like NumPy
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• Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RPG in a Box
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• Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
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• PDF to Text, a challenging problem
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• Flattening Rust’s learning curve
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• Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
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• Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
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• The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
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• What is HDR, anyway?
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• SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
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• AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
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• The great displacement is already well underway?
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• Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?
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• FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models
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• Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
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• Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
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• The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
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• Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
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• In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
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• Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb
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• Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
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• Why Bell Labs Worked
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• Continuous Thought Machines
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• I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC
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• US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
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• A community-led fork of Organic Maps
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• Embeddings are underrated (2024)
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• The Barbican
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• I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market
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• For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
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• Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals
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• Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?
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• Observations from people-watching
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• Leaving Google
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• One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
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• In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
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• I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
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• Plain Vanilla Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
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• Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs
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• Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
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• Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
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• A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
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• Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
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• Gmail to SQLite
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• The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
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• US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
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• A Critical Look at MCP
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference
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• Reservoir Sampling
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• Starlink User Terminal Teardown
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• LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
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• WASM 2.0
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• Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor
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• NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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• Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
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• 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X
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• ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• So Much Blood
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• Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
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• Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
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• RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement
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• Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
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• Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
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• My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
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• First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
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• Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
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• From: Steve Jobs. \"Great idea, thank you.\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
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• Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
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• Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
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• Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
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• India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
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• VVVVVV Source Code
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• Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
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• CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
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• Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
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• Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
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• As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often
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• Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
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• Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
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• An appeal to Apple from Anukari
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• The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
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• Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
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• Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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• Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
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• Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
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• Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire
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• An Alabama landline that keeps ringing
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• On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots
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• Show HN: My AI Native Resume
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• AI Meets WinDBG
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• The vocal effects of Daft Punk
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• Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
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• The Death of Daydreaming
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• Evolving OpenAI's Structure
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global
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• Why can't HTML alone do includes?
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• Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
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• Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)
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• DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
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• When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
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• Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
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• What went wrong with wireless USB
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• Design for 3D-Printing
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• I'd rather read the prompt
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
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• Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
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• Suno v4.5
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• Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
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• Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
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• Accountability Sinks
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• Minimum Viable Blog
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• Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
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• Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
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• We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Claude Integrations
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• New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
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• Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
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• Third party cookies must be removed
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• Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US
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• Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
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• How to live an intellectually rich life
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• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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• “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps
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• The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-05-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
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• You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
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• How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
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• Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
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• Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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• 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
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• A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
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• Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
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• Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
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• Redis is open source again
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I use zip bombs to protect my server
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• Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
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• Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
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• Sycophancy in GPT-4o
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• I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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• Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
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• Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
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• Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left
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• Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
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• Someone at YouTube needs glasses
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